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Old 05-13-2012, 01:11 AM
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Kiwi's Levels [Criticism Appreciated]

Hey there,
Lately I've been really wanting to apply for a staff position on a server. Which one exactly, I'm not sure. But I'm not really sure if I'm good enough yet for that, so I really want to get the best I can be before I apply for anything.

I'd like some criticism on a few levels, please. Say anything you think is wrong, or mucked up, just as long as it isn't hurtful to me personally. I'm all ears.

This first one is one I posted a while ago, asking about some grass I had in there. I read your criticisms in that thread, and tried to act on them, but I didn't really finish all of it because I felt like doing other things.
It uses the Atlantis tileset, which I did not make. But it is amazing. I like to use it because, unlike pics1, it doesn't blind me at night.

This second one uses the Delteria tileset, which I decided to play around with. I planned to add a few houses, or the edge of a town up the top, but, not being used to the tileset, I couldn't make it look right and added other various things. The bridge is a NPC I made from one of the Delteria screenshots.


Lastly, I decided to make a level with the Stroseria tileset, but this isn't finished yet. The little cliffs were from something that Skyzer showed me that I decided to try out. They didn't work out too well though, and they're kind of ugly . This level isn't finished yet, but I do plan to finish it.



So, like I said, criticism is appreciated.

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Old 05-13-2012, 01:23 AM
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I personally find them all to be rather alright.
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Old 05-13-2012, 02:09 AM
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It would be cool to see more of this on Graal... people just making levels for fun with different tilesets.
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Old 05-13-2012, 03:23 AM
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I like these levels, they feel correct
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Old 05-13-2012, 03:29 AM
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Apart from the little errors (bottom right of last image) they look good
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Old 05-13-2012, 06:20 PM
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first one has a nice feel to it. if you got rid of these:



i think it would look much nicer and be more practical aswell.
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Old 05-13-2012, 06:25 PM
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i dont like the house it looks too nubbish no style really put into it
the last screen shot the cliffs could use little more work more wavey messy ect

but idk it's a personal option i guess plus i cant say this enough more detail grass tiles ect
i love detail levels
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Old 05-14-2012, 04:10 AM
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Quick question: I sent the Delteria level to another computer, along with the tileset, to edit, but when I tried to load the tileset it wouldn't work? I went into Paint.NET, and made sure it was saved as 8-bit.

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addtiledef deltlite_tileset.png,,0;


That's what I put in the NPC. It had always worked before .

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Old 05-14-2012, 04:52 AM
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Try adding removetiledefs; above the addtiledef. Be aware that it'll delete all of your previous addtiledefs though.
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Old 05-14-2012, 04:55 AM
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Okay, so, I did
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removetiledefs;
addtiledef deltlite_tileset.png,,0;


but it still won't work. Would the computer need to have physically logged into the server for it to work?
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Old 05-14-2012, 05:05 AM
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Level editors really need to learn how addtiledef ACTUALLY works. The second parameter is for the level prefix. It will apply the tiledef to any level that starts with the string you provide.

So:

addtiledef deltlite_tileset.png,kiwilevel_,0;

Will make any level that has a level name that begins with "kiwilevel_" have the delteria tileset.

Level makers using blank parameters needs to stop as on a server that would cause a lot of issues.
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Old 05-14-2012, 05:20 AM
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Yeah, well. I work offline, so I never bothered to learn that stuff.
But thanks for teaching .
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Old 05-14-2012, 05:33 AM
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Yeah, well. I work offline, so I never bothered to learn that stuff.
But thanks for teaching .
Should always learn regardless because bad habits die hard. Even if you only work offline eventually if you get into online development you'll have to spend more effort trying to get past those deeply-engraved bad practices :P
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Old 05-14-2012, 07:11 AM
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This is seriously bugging me.

That is what happens when I try to load it. Here is the code I've been using:


NPC Code:
removetiledefs;
addtiledef deltlite_tileset.png,kiwidelt_,1;


Help would be much appreciated.
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This is seriously bugging me.

That is what happens when I try to load it. Here is the code I've been using:


NPC Code:
removetiledefs;
addtiledef deltlite_tileset.png,kiwidelt_,1;


Help would be much appreciated.
Try closing down the editor, delete FILENAMESCACHE.txt and try again. If that doesn't work, you're either not having the tileset in your Graal folder, or it's not 8-bit.
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